Notice how even some of the greenest cleaning products come in plastic bottles?

I took this photo at the Concord Co-op, our best local source of green products, bulk food and fairly affordable organics.  I was paralyzed by the choices.  I don’t have a clue how to decide which products are worth buying and/or worth using.  I’m going to continue to try to scrub the bathrooms with baking soda but there are only so many hours in a day.

And I’m clearly not the only one struggling with the proper amount of plastic to let into my life:

Trine Tsourderos of The Chicago Tribune spent a week attempting to live plastic free. With a 7 month old son in diapers, a sippy cup wielding toddler and a husband. The good news is that she was so flummoxed as to what to eat that was not encased in plastic that she lost some weight. The bad news is that plastic is so pervasive in our world that she was unable to be plastic free for even one day.  

When she noted that her green-clean house smelled of salad dressing and Christmas I both laughed out loud and made a mental note to buy tea tree essential oil — the t.t.o. is allegedly antibacterial and doesn’t smell like Christmas. I guess our house will smell like salad dressing and…tea?

With the aforementioned 5 boys, that will be pretty good.